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strong look of his features too—It was a piteous sight!

Ah, man! but that was nothing to the execution. I paid half a dollar for a place near the scaffold; and it would have made any body's heart drop blood to have seen him when he lifted up the handkerchief from his eyes, and took his last look of the day-light, and all the living creatures about him.

Ay, man, that a human creature should be thus thrust out of the world by human creatures like himself; it is a piteous thing! What news? what news of the prisoner?

He has just finished his defence, in which he has acquitted himself so nobly, setting off his words too with such a manly grace, that it is thought by every body he will be set free.

Indeed! I should not have expected this now; spoke so nobly say'st thou?

Yes, yes, noble blood makes noble speaking.